NEW HAVEN — A memorial gathering will take place at Cafe Nine this weekend for Stacy Phillips, a Grammy-winning Bluegrass musician who died Tuesday after suffering a massive heart attack while driving from a gig Sunday at Emanuel Synagogue in West Hartford.

Phillips, 73, was a founding member of the Afro-Semitic Experience, a well-known New Haven jazz group, which played the synagogue Sunday. He played the fiddle and was considered a master of the Dobro guitar, according to a New Haven Independent story.

David Chevan, a fellow band musician and friend whom the family designated to speak publicly about the death, wrote on Facebook that Phillips’ sister told him Stacy was put into an induced coma at Hartford Hospital after the heart attack and taken off life support Tuesday.

Chevan wrote in an email that “Stacy was his own person and that was reflected in the life he led as a musician. If this news seems like a surprise or a blow, I agree. I have spent the past two days in a state of disbelief as the life of someone who was a colleague, a mentor, a friend and a genuine world-class grump slipped away.”

Phillips was slated to play Cafe Nine on Sunday with Stacy Phillips and His Bluegrass Characters but now the State Street venue will host “the first of several memorials,” wrote Chevan, who noted that Phillips will have no funeral and had donated his body to Yale Medical School. Doors will open at noon for the 1 p.m. memorial.

Longtime producer/presenter Fernando Pinto of Cafe Nine said in an email that hearing the news was sad. “I saw him live a few times and he was always mesmerizing. Losing a master like Stacy Phillips is a huge loss for our music community. Light to his spirit.”

Chevan said the Bluegrass Characters and Cafe 9 “have graciously offered their performance time and space to all as a place where we can honor Stacy’s memory and remember him as musicians so often do: through words and music.”

The schedule Sunday, as listed on the Afro-Semitic Experience website, is a memorial service and family reminisces about Stacy led by Cantor Malachi Kanfer at 1 p.m., Nu Haven Kapelye at 1:30, Afro-Semitic Experience at 2:30, Bluegrass Characters at 3:30 and open mic from 4:30-6.